thirteen people arrested and accused of being on russia's payroll earlier this week nine of them received sentences of up to fourteen years in prison for the georgian government this is a matter of national security but others in georgia are very critical of what they see as particularly ruthless political calculation if you are into iraq surely. you are already. you are. if you are. no. words because all this. really isn't a russian who's never or who are slightly. going. to police he must know deal with the most serious about a geisha spying it has a neighbor with whom its relations are at rock bottom and it has some men in jail but many are questioning whether this is really about justice or about politics tom

bottom ninety. minutes to has ordered a suspension of all police brutality during the revolution that toppled president mubarak on friday thousands of egyptians turned out for the biggest rally in months angered over the slow pace of prosecuting officials and they also accuse the interim leadership of the dragging its feet on promised reforms and now when to say if mubarak's legacy stand on life. egypt's uprising might have ousted president mubarak but to them he's far from gone thousands of people out here on top here they all see different things inside egypt but they join together because the people we've spoken to feel like their revolution has been still there we go through the. dictatorship of a lifetime when the taste of freedom was short lived the military is in full power mass media is being choked and oppression still rampant and worse than before and i think they werent catching. activists as much as they are doing now. take them to

a prison and i guess now they're being greedy violence they want to kill that evolution this still that in the first place he's known simply as a horse and here in egypt a social network or with a twitter army of some thirty thousand followers the military throws of civilians have to stop immediately immediately this is you know one of the major demands we're putting forward one of many demands including transparent trials for the fallen regime and the purging of corrupt officials they got rid of mubarak you know their high ranking officials but now egypt will be the same way it was before january sort of got that little officials a little mubarak so many new marks rather is what they're offering them are running the country people like myself have been arguing for taking the high you to the factories for you to the universities seeking to have you to the world places meaning that in every single word police we have an egypt that is i mean you know

what i was never interested in politics in till january she was shot with twenty three pellets by riot police twenty of which are still in her leg the pain is finally gone but her perseverance is not the barrier of fear is gone and she will continue to fight to the end i want every every egyptian citizen to be treated as a human being every protester has their own vision of the egypt they're fighting for some want to constitution and then free elections others think the new laws should follow the vote but one thing that brings them all together is that this egypt is not the it and he said no way are cheap cairo. this is our chance to head for you this hour the mission to save the world's economy starts with grief the country's power like finance system is a top of christian gods to do. lipstadt she sets out

a stall of the new chief as the new chief of the international monetary fund. and thrown out of court a protesting general rights complied it is objected from the hague tribunal where he's accused of crimes against humanity. sixteen people have been killed in a fire in an old people's home in ukraine it took fire brigades five hours to extinguish the flames in a small village in the country's northwest they managed to rescue eleven people who needed hospital treatment for severe smoke inhalation three of them are in intensive care the blaze completely destroyed the roof of the building and i'm not sure it's wooden construction police say it was not started deliberately. this week rebels in libya made significant advances battling government forces but they say progress on their way to tripoli has been slowed by a lack of support from nato meanwhile germany has agreed to supply new nations for the alliance is continuing as strikes berlin did not originally bind the operation

and some such as that coalition of pressure has caused a shift in position. scifres of whether germany joining the nature of bombing operation will turn out to be a good. deal more bombs wanted just over one hundred days of airstrikes and with just over two thousand bombs dropped by nato allies on libya the mission has run into an unexpected problem a lack of shells to drop where there is demand there is supply in this case germany has agreed to provide the much needed ammunition previously berlin has abstained from voting in favor of the un security council resolution on libya a move that surprised some and good others but it may now be backing out of a decision the germans may not want to participate but are they have decided that the position does not preclude them actually subline weapons in this case or systems some believe germany is under pressure from other need to members particularly the. united states friends in the u.k.

to take a more active part in the libyan campaign at first our you know ministries toward the foreign affairs minister don't go into libya it's a very bad conflict it was started by the cia and it's a dirty business don't go there so this is why you voted with russia and china now the backlash from washington is so tough obviously we are under pressure to do something to make up for this decision aside from peer pressure germany may be alerted by the possible financial benefits of making its weapons available for natives use in libya probably germany will get paid for delivering these to other countries but that is normal practice between countries even between nato countries . out of the twenty eight nato members only eight are actively participating in libya with civilian deaths to which nato recently admitted to a shortage of weapons and the ever relentless more market duffy still at the helm

the coalition may be facing just the beginning of its problems. berlin is in a tough spot on the one hand it has disappointed nato by refusing to support the mission in libya in march on the other by agreeing to supply bombs it may now lose friends in other high places and whatever the real reasons for its contradictory policy may be germany could find that by trying to please everyone it may end up pleasing no one it is a ghost corti. for months on end nato is protracted intervention in libya has yet to yield its desired result with accusations persisting the un mandate has been violated and dr franklin lamb and actually from the americans concerned for middle east peace group says nato is as trikes are only uniting people behind cannell khadafi. the bombing needlessly puts the population on edge it increases anxiety and anger if nato is trying to weaken the regime it seems to me that as

history teaches us would be a bomb a population it is often the unite behind the government of the day and rather than breaking the connection between the people and the leadership it seems to increase it it was a mistake obama who served the election may be on the line cannot afford a defeat and the victory comes like it's supposed to be as it is saddam and osama you've gotta kill the bad guy so it looks to us like it's now a game of targeting the leadership otherwise nato ruses if nato loses the consequences are enormous there's enormous trillion dollar financial consequences for those members of the nato countries who are seen as aggressors and invaders here so the feeling is that they've got to do something the only thing they can do possibly to achieve a victory is either assassinate khadafi and some of his circle or didn't and to do that they might have to come on the ground nato has joined the side of promoting

the rebels against the government again a clear violation of one nine hundred seventy three. russia has condemned nato for its continue military action in libya foreign minister sergei lavrov said bombing the country to force colonel gadhafi to step down is a cynical political game with too many civilian lives at stake. latest bombing libya longer that it was bombing yugoslavia several years ago and there is no end in sight it's obvious that politics is a cynical matter we hear from the western capitals that the bombing should go on until gadhafi backs off but the human cost of these political statements is very high. and later this hour the focus remains on the turbulent arab region as r.t. speaks to a syrian politician for his views on the way out of his country's crisis. britain's best selling newspaper the news of the world it saying its final farewell to its readers after one hundred sixty eight hears the paper was axed by its media mogul

owner following the phone hacking scandal public outrage flared this week as claims emerge that journalists intercepted a phone calls to murder victims and dead soldiers families and media and. rupert murdoch has now lost his long standing immunity among britain's political elite i think something changed this week for decades british prime ministers have been on the needs to the to the murdoch press because they knew that when the sun which is his main daily newspaper here in britain when the sun supported a british politician running for prime minister actually you know they won it and then you find on the next day you find the prime minister reading the sun looking like an idiot saying well the sun got me elected i mean you've got this the meaning of democracy is the missing of democracy really which the murdoch press was at the heart of but i think there was a silence as well because important people needed the murdoch press and they couldn't be they couldn't attack it because of that and i think

a line was crossed. a very finely tuned business brain he has a lot of things going on now one of them is to purchase the larger. satellite network in britain called the sky b. that decision is about to be approved by the government that was in jeopardy i think he felt that as a businessman he had to sacrifice the news of the world because it in terms of the whole news international it's a tiny part of all that the political class had been sucking up to rupert murdoch for so many years including prime minister david cameron he now has to stand back and say no i can't do it anymore it's going to bad. the international monetary fund has given the green light to a second rescue package for greece and preventing the country from defaulting on its debt and it's the i.m.f. new chief christine lagarde will have to keep the problems of the cash strapped e.u. close to heart after picking out the baton from her pretty sesa dominique strauss kahn christian from looks at what france's former finance minister has inherited.

from violence on the streets of the middle east. to protests in north africa to europe. or portugal's credit rating has been deemed junk. and in greece. where unemployment hovers at about sixteen percent and the debt crisis has sparked anger nearly all of this anger stemming from poverty and failed economic policies in the u.s. as well high unemployment sits atop a mountain of problems like a housing crisis and slow financial growth. this is the world christine legarde inherits as she begins at her new post as managing director of the international monetary fund and her first formal meeting with the press at the i.m.f. headquarters in washington she seemed optimistic in her hopes the international monetary fund is here to serve and to provide services to its hundred and eighty

seven members it's not the sexiest of news stories but still the inaugural press conference for the new managing director of the i am and then garner quite a bit of media attention most likely it had less to do with christine lagarde herself and more to do with the reason why she's here. and what lessons do you think ought to be drawn from the way the u.s. legal system handled this current case we could be any reforms in the human rights and human resources policies here do you plan any changes in them in light of the controversy over mr strauss kahn the controversy of course with dominique strauss kahn accused of raping a hotel maid in new york that case now starting to crumble after it turned out the maid had credibility problems but back to the i.m.f. or lagarde will take over let me ask you about a couple of issues what worries you the most la garde did her best to stay on

message we cannot be only driven by the hope to reduce fiscal deficits and organize fiscal consolidation in a big way whether you look at advanced economies or whether you look at emerging markets or low income countries the issue of employment. is a critical one the one hundred eighty seven nation organization has already lent one hundred sixty billion dollars to cash strapped nations many of which have little hope for paying it back. so the real questions are manifested here on the streets of some of the nation suffering the most are accepting aid from the i.m.f. has been presented at times as the only option as austerity measures are now being put into place the questions to our in the dollar and how its value may or may not change under her watch her managing the debt crisis around the world will fall at

the top of her agenda as the rest of the world watches with hope first ability in an unstable world in washington christine for south r.t. . still ahead in our weekly program the nightmare returns in other quake hades japan's shoals and once again bringing a frightening reminded to people picked up the pieces from march as disaster. their former bosnian serb general is likely to get a new legal counsel to represent him a behaved war crimes tribunal within days is hearing they sway calls disrupted one lot of escorted out of the courtroom for shouting and interrupting the judge and refusing to enter a plea instead the judge was forced to enter a not guilty plea on his behalf but cannot is accused of ordering the mass killing of thousands of both he and muslims during the balkans war but on the anniversary of the srebrenica massacre many sides feel their side of the story isn't being taken into account katrina report. liquid little town of sibling meets in bosnia

and herzegovina who looks at dilip you houses are being built people go about their business and in the center of the town a mosque and a church sit side by side but this apparent unity is an illusion sixteen years ago the entire region was torn apart by ethnic clashes during the yugoslav war instead of a need to became infamous when the united nations stated eight thousand muslim men and boys were massacred by bosnian serb forces today a memorial for the deceased sits in the grounds of a former un military base the sort of thing it's a memorial ground as well maintained and frequently visited by locals journalists and tourists who get boston from the bosnian capital of what the tourists aren't shown are the thousands of serbian graves that lined cemeteries all around us that have been it's a region. thousands of people were killed during the balkan wars of the one nine

hundred ninety s. but senators like these with entire families of murdered serb civilians only get visited by the very few remaining survivors but only comes here all the time his entire family lives here he says a bosnian muslim general is responsible so you know i was only nine years old when this had already struck away everything i had in life first he killed my mother then my father and brother i was wounded and taken captive they held me for fifty six days and only god knows how or why i survived. but even though but on a survive his loss just like that of thousands of people here is being ignored. was at the hague tribunal and i was supposed to be a witness in his trial but in the end me and about thirty other witnesses were simply cast aside they didn't call us didn't ask what happened to our families and the tribunal only gave him two years in prison. the balkan war so heinous

atrocities visited on all sides and perpetrated by all players but the version most often propagated by western media is rather one sided in blaming the serbs the purpose of that is to set the stage and create a rationale for so-called humanitarian interventions which in the occurred in considerable number of the mouth of serpent so that so-called precedent can be traced through the years and into today's headlines bosnia iraq afghanistan and most recently libya have all played unwilling hosts to nato troops and u.s. imposed no fly zones but it is very important in the creation of the. scenario to make sure that in the minds of most people. was drawn aside which was preventable but for whatever reasons the so-called

international community didn't do anything about it. some might say the journey from seventy needs it to benghazi via baghdad and kabul could now be traced as a kind of nato road map but as with any road paved with good intentions there is only one possible destination castros are about r t bosnia and herzegovina. and of course there are more stories online at all to call and let's see what else is there right now. while there are reports of widespread deaths and devastation from blasts in turkmenistan the government claims it's nothing more than a harmless firework incident. and find out why more than eleven million websites have been blacklisted and banned by giant web search engine google. russia has called a native to cooperate more over security during russia's meeting with the alliance in the black sea resort of sochi moscow said dialogue and european defense wasn't

growing as fast as had been hoped the proposed to missile shield remains a divisive issue as russia sees u.s. plans to deploy its rockets in europe as a direct threat to its own national security however president dmitry medvedev claims some progress was being made the situation afghanistan was also gender with joint efforts to battle drug trafficking in the country said to be bearing fruit pointed out there was still no common view on the complainingly via s. concerns remain that the security council's mandate is being overstepped. let's now bring you round up some of today's other international news stories the australian government has to force the countries was five hundred polluters to pay cash for the carbon dioxide they give of emissions would be taxed at twenty five u.s. dollars been metric ton for next year the money raised will be used to compensate households with higher energy bills australia is one of the world's was demeter's of greenhouse gases due to its heavy dependence on coal for tree city.

thousands of islamic activates took to the streets outside the capital of bangladesh they were angered at the removal of the clothes in the construction that expressed quote absolute faith and they tried to block roads and attacked vehicles that defied calls for a national strike and threw stones at the security forces police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the protesters at least five. the people that wanted. to civilians and the police might have been killed and dozens injured in separate attacks on colombian towns in the southwest of the country into arabia a bomb was detonated metres away from the town hall and a marketplace packed with people in another town gunmen drove a small bus laden with explosives into the local police station at the shoulder blamed a far. a powerful earthquake has hit japan immediately prompting fears of a tsunami and vast swathes of the country still lying varian's up to march as huge

earthquake triggered disaster which destroyed a whole towns and killed more than fourteen thousand people and a four month sauna and mamma struction effort is taking place along the country's northern coast but people's emotional distress will take much longer to repair as shock thomas reports. as the waves crash against a damaged to sea wall on the japanese coast volunteers work tirelessly to clean up the debris and bring some sense of normalcy back to the area. i want to tell people we need more help more supplies and things are still bad here beyond the physical destruction and there is a distressing psychological factor as well the city of you walk is right on the edge of the twenty kilometer exclusion zone for radiation contamination in fact in a recent study by japan's nuclear safety commission forty five percent of one thousand children tested in the walk year and may bring cities have tested positive for thyroid radiation exposure

a figure that has parents appalled that the government has researched the great era for safety and are not concerned with the consequences their reaction is to help the government face but they don't actually take care of the damage and the people here. first there was the earthquake then the devastating a wave which rushed in and destroyed this part of the coastal city of it walking also there are the nuclear radiation waves that are coming into this area as well the volunteers that are coming in to rebuild this city certainly have their work cut out for them but just like the city itself the people who live here the community they need to have their spirits rebuilt as well. that. again in an effort to keep the community emotionally strong organizers have brought this acting troupe in from tokyo they saved their goal is to provide something that beyond a simple intertainment or where have

a certain japanese pride and in this destructive situation i would like to bring good things and present the spirit of japan and japanese pride by bringing people together and making people smile through that shared community experience there is a sense of hope that the city of milwaukee can indeed recover a convenience store because they close the city hall but if you see anything like this coming. and with an understanding that there is still much more work that needs to be done the people here are working to keep their community together. i just want them to stay where they want. and they can be helpful that's a good thing that. rebuilding the city one step at a time any wonky city japan sean thomas r.t. . shortly we'll bring you our interview with the syrian deputy foreign minister where he's views on what needs to be done to stabilize his country that's up to a recap of our top stories in just a moment so stay with us one hundred. twenty

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and here are today's top stories under review of the week georgia claims that three photographers including presidents past will stop russian spies they're now in custody awaiting a hearing in september but skeptics say the whole case is an attempt to rattle moscow. egypt's interim government is the suspension of policemen accused of killing protesters during fibrous uprisings they says cairo's tahrir square is once again stormed by thousands of demonstrators demanding reforms. also britain's best selling newspaper the news of the world says goodbye to its two million readers as it turns the last page of its one hundred sixty eighty he's treated the shutdown comes in the wake of phone hacking allegations and arrests. and germany has agreed

to supply nato forces in libya with munitions for the continuing ass trikes but many say the ships from its original position on the campaign is a result of pressure from other alliance members. there's the headlines now they see where the government is holding talks on reforms but the opposition and the boycotting the national dialogue they say they will not participate as long as the regime continues to quiet down on protesters up next to syrian politike politician rather shares he's views on whether a solution can be found. so you would like to talk about what has been going on in syria for the last three months to please come in under us but that. i want to know what the new are but outside of syria has seen complicated events in these three months when religious extremists tarted to destabilize the country's peace and security and undermines to

billet in syria of course the mass media have also done their bit to present syria in an unfavorable light as a country that is hostile towards its own people never in the history of modern syria has the country been attacked the way these armed bands of extremists are doing it syria is in need of reforms and we have had peaceful demonstrations in favor of reforms the syrian government of president bashar al assad responded to the demands of the people but as you may recall every time the government was about to introduce reforms of violence surged in the country i witnessed these acts in dar and other syrian provinces like many other citizens did in the incumbent president of syria is committed to reforms and in two thousand he proposed a major program of reforms but events in the region that followed affected the implementation of the reforms that were gravely ill the us invasion of iraq and the potential threat that the aggression would sweep over syria after the american government made some tensions clear the turmoil.